We have learnt nothing from 2013 Uttarakhand disaster
Nivedita Khandekar
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It is not for the first time that the area is witnessing such a natural disaster. It is also not the first time that the government has allowed dam projects in the fragile Himalayan ecology
It has been more than 48 hours, but the villagers of Raini are still reeling from effects of the loud crashing sound that was followed by an almost deafening roar of the river, as it bolstered down the narrow gorge on February 7. From the cluster of glaciers of the Nanda Devi massif, a hefty chunk got detached and was swept down the Rishiganga gorge towards the base of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, and it took less than ten seconds for the flash flood to completely submerge the dam structure of the Rishiganga hydropower project, blasting it into smithereens.
Rescue operations underway at Tapovan Tunnel, after a glacier broke off in Joshimath causing a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river (PTI photo)
DEHRADUN: Over 500 rescue personnel from state, disaster and defence forces are racing against time to rescue the 34 workers and there could be more believed trapped inside a 1.6-km-long debris-filled tunnel of the Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district. The flooded Dhauliganga is the river on which the project was being built.
The rescue effort on Monday with two National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams, over 300 Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel, a Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) team and over 120 from the Army was entirely channelised towards that one tunnel. The 12 men in the other tunnel of the project had been rescued on Sunday.
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